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Memorial rally held to remember Cincinnati shooting that sparked 2001 riots Share Updated: 11:25 PM EDT Apr 7, 2021 Share Updated: 11:25 PM EDT Apr 7, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript HEAVY HEARTS AS THE COMMUNITY REFLECTED. EVERY STEP TAKEN WHILE MARCHING DOWN 13TH STREET CARRY THE WEIGHT, THE GRIEF OF WHAT HAPPENED HERE 20 YEARS AGO TODAY. >> TIMOTHY THOMAS'S DEATH WAS THE STRAW THAT BROKE THE CAMEL'S BACK. >> ON APRIL 7, 2001, 19 YEAR-OLD TIMOTHY THOMAS AN UNARMED BLACK MAN WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY A CINCINNATI POLICE OFFICER. IT SPARKED THE LARGEST RIOTS SIN...

20 years since the civil unrest, how close is Cincinnati to achieving equity? This mom says not very 'It's an endless cycle' Courtesy of LaVenia Jones and last updated 2021-04-08 05:00:38-04 Twenty years ago, in the early morning hours of April 7, 2001, Cincinnati Police Officer Stephen Roach shot and killed 19-year-old Timothy Thomas in an Over-the-Rhine alley. Thomas was the 15th Black man killed by police since 1995, and his death sparked days of unrest that highlighted a deep divide between Cincinnati’s Black community and the police. That mistrust, along with lawsuits accusing the d...

1:01 Mona Jenkins speaks to the crowd as people gather at Washington Park in memorial of Timothy Thomas, who died 20 years ago this month after being shot and killed by then-Cincinnati Police officer, Stephen Roach, which eventually led to city-wide civil unrest for nearly a week. Credit Jason Whitman / WVXU Thomas, a Black man, was 19 years old when he was shot and killed by a Cincinnati police officer in 2001. He'd run from police who tried to arrest him for past nonviolent misdemeanors, mostly traffic citations. Officer Stephen Roach and Thomas both ended up in an alleyway near Republic St...

Nick Swartsell / WVXU The unrest that tore through Over-the-Rhine in 2001 was, on the surface, about the death of Timothy Thomas and other Black men at the hands of police. But its roots went much deeper, some activists say, involving economic frustrations among Cincinnati's Black residents that continue to this day. While the city has made some efforts to bridge a yawning wealth and income gap between its white and non-white residents, some question whether economic development that occurred after 2001 in places like Over-the-Rhine has helped or hurt the Black communities in those neigh...

Cincinnati Magazine April 7, 2021 In some aspects, Cincinnati is a very different place than it was two decades ago. But when it comes to race relations, it’s almost exactly the same. Black people living and working here can attest to the structural racial divide that continues to undergird their experiences. Illustration by Kingsley Mebechi Beneath the city’s shiny new buildings, popular restaurants, and everyday wheeling, dealing, and power brokering lie the ashes of April 2001. That’s when Over-the-Rhine exploded in an uprising after the death of Timothy Thomas, an unarmed Black man,...